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8/20/2002 Janne Halmetoja: Strenght minimums?
As GURPS player I'm interested in to know is there strenght minimums for weapons or can child use poleaxe with same effectiness than Conan (excluding damage)? In my opinion this…
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Participants: Janne Halmetoja, Lyrax, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Durgil, Mike Holmes, Sneaky Git, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking, Unsane.

8/20/2002 Shadeling: Pain, Does it Affect Skills?
I had to ask, Does the Pain from wounds, also affect Skills. So if I had a Pain of 5, would I subtract 5 dice from my skills (in effect…
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Participants: Shadeling, Bogie_71, Mokkurkalfe, Spartan, Wolfen.

8/19/2002 ShaneNINE: Sorcery: Something from Nothing
The rules say you can't create something from nothing or turn something to nothing, but isn't that what the example shrink/enlarge spells do? Seems a catch 22 to me. You…
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Participants: ShaneNINE, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Bogie_71, Unsane, Wolfen, Bob Richter.

8/19/2002 ShaneNINE: Math Help
I need some help figuring out how changing the number of dice in a die pool, or changing the TN, affects the % chance of success. In other words, I…
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Participants: ShaneNINE, Mike Holmes, Jaif, Durgil, Wolfen, Thirsty Viking.

8/19/2002 Enoch: Questions
I hate to make a whole thread out of this, but I have a tRoS game tomorrow and I need some clarification. Questions: 1. How exactly do you move in…
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Participants: Enoch, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, Sneaky Git, Lyrax.

8/19/2002 Lyrax: OT: A little bit of humor
[url]http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020807&mode=classic[/url] Have fun with this.
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Participants: Lyrax.

8/17/2002 Jake Norwood: Going out of Town and the Ultimate Question
I'll be out of town for about 2 weeks. Ben Moore will be around here, though, so he might be on occasionally to answer questions and what not. I'll also…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Rick, Lyrax, Nick Pagnucco, Gordon C. Landis.

8/16/2002 Jaif: Is Narsil a Longsword?
Ok, for those of you who've seen the LoTR movie (like there's any doubt<g>), what kind of sword is Narsil? I'm talking about game terms here - I know that…
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Participants: Jaif, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Ben Morgan, Mokkurkalfe, Brian Leybourne, Hoser, Mike Holmes, Sneaky Git.

8/15/2002 ShaneNINE: The simple TROS rules
I read somewhere that you can opt for basic, simple rules in TROS instead of the full fledged combat system. Can't remember where, exactly, and I don't have my book…
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Participants: ShaneNINE, Spartan.

8/15/2002 Skywalker: Hit Locations
Just as a matter of interest, I know people have already raised the problem of TROS letting people choose where to strike and encouraging people to always strike the most…
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Participants: Skywalker, Spartan, Jaif, Jake Norwood, ShaneNINE.

8/14/2002 Wolfen: Dreams of the Riddle
I had a dream last night, guys. It was my typical weird dream, with all sorts of stuff going on in it that made sense in context, but after the…
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Participants: Wolfen, Furious D, Jake Norwood.

8/13/2002 Jason L Blair: TROS in InQuest
From InQuest 89, page 27: THE RIDDLE OF STEEL RPG WHAT IT IS: A new RPG set on the world of Weyreth, with origins in Celtic and Norse mythology. Driftwood.…
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Participants: Jason L Blair, Nick Pagnucco.

8/13/2002 Brian Leybourne: Rule variants
Let me preface this by saying that I don't think the tRoS rule system is in any way lacking etc. I'm just one of those roleplayers who likes to try…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Ace, Mokkurkalfe, Lyrax.

8/13/2002 Mokkurkalfe: Spiritual Attributes by the hundreds!
Alright, what kind of cool SA's can you come up with? Give me your best shot, and include some adventure hooks and possibilites. Like so: Drive: Enforce Law and Order…
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Participants: Mokkurkalfe, Spikor, Mike Holmes, Warboss Grock, Ron Edwards, Stephen, prophet118, Ashren Va'Hale, Vanguard, Lyrax.

8/13/2002 Bogie_71: Confusion with Battle system
Ran some test battles last night and most things ran pretty smoothly but I was left with a few questions. Does Shield Rating stack with Armor Rating in the Zones…
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Participants: Bogie_71, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Spikor, Mokkurkalfe, Wolfen, Spartan.

8/13/2002 Spikor: Oriental Weapons
Any ideas out there on what the stats would be for oriental weapons specifically, the katana and the wakizashi?
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Participants: Spikor, Bob Richter, Mike Holmes, Riddlemaster, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Lyrax, contracycle, Jaif, Wolfen, svenlein, Brian Leybourne, Bankuei, Crusader.

8/13/2002 Bob Richter: On Priorities (and a friendlier priority table.)
Take the various priorities. Race, for example. An F is merely "Normal" -- nothing good or bad about it, you're just the common human. Indeed, E is the same thing,…
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Participants: Bob Richter, Valamir, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Lyrax, Jaif, Brian Leybourne, Furious D.

8/13/2002 Jaif: Flails and parry
I was looking through the weapon stats, and noticing that flails ignore 2 shield block successes. Sounds good, but what if I parry? It seems to me that parrying a…
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Participants: Jaif, Lyrax, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, Durgil, Thorbrin.

8/12/2002 Durgil: Toughness
[quote][b]Spartan wrote ([url]http://www.shadowharn.net/viewtopic.php?t=741[/url]):[/b] My main beef with the system is the TOUGHNESS stat. It functions the same as armour reduction, and I find that to be a bit unrealistic. If…
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Participants: Durgil, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood, Spartan, Lyrax, Bob Richter, Jaif, Bogie_71, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, MTG, Valamir, Enoch, Ace, svenlein, Jasper, Thirsty Viking, Northcott, Sneaky Git, Apprentice of Steel, Holt, Shadeling, Nick Pagnucco.

8/11/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: demo
The demo today went rather well, only two people showed but one of them was the guy running the store. Anyhow one copy of TROS left the store additional to…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

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8/23/2002 Shadeling: Post-Apocalyptic Game
I think the TROs Combat system could lend itself to a dark, gritty, Post-Apoc genre game very nicely. Whatcha think?
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Participants: Shadeling, Janne Halmetoja.

8/23/2002 Shadeling: Halflings
Halflings have modifiers in their descriptions. Now would they also gain the mods of their human nation? I was just curious on this.
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Participants: Shadeling, Lyrax, Sneaky Git, Wolfen, Furious D, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

8/24/2002 Jaif: Duel Knives?
I have a new player who may want to use two knives. I have know clue whether this is European or not, it's just something cool he wants to do.…
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Participants: Jaif, Wolfen, Spartan.

8/24/2002 Shadeling: Doubling Up on Skill Packages...
What is the advantage of this? What have any of you done?
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Participants: Shadeling, Spartan, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Lyrax, Sneaky Git.

8/26/2002 Flash: Ambidexterity
Got a quick question about Ambidexterity. I don't understand what the last sentence of the Ambidexterity Gift is trying to say. "Other uses for this Gift are outlined in the…
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Participants: Flash, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking, Wolfen.

8/26/2002 Jasper: Backed into a corner... request for help
Hi, everyone. I ran my group's first full adventure with TRoS last night (they chose it, of their own accord, over Orkworld and Ars Magicka, which pleased me no end).…
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Participants: Jasper, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Lyrax, Sneaky Git, Wolfen, Thirsty Viking.

8/27/2002 Shadeling: Conscience Spiritual Attribute
Ok, here is my question- Is Conscience always defined as do the right thing, or can it be modified based on characters?
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Participants: Shadeling, Unsane, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Mokkurkalfe, Nick Pagnucco, Jaif.

8/27/2002 Spartan: Clarification about mass weapons
OK, I know these are kind of dumb questions, but I thought I'd ask just to make sure... Mass weapons and shock: It says in the weapon description that mass…
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Participants: Spartan, Shadeling, Jasper, Wolfen, Lyrax, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

8/27/2002 Ben: Book 5, what's that?
Hi all, Sorry I haven't actually been around like Jake promissed. I've been busy with the move and all. For those of you who have no clue as to who…
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Participants: Ben, Jasper, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Sneaky Git.

8/27/2002 Jaillir: TROS in Germany??
Hi! I´ve been trying hard to find TROS here in Germany. The German distributor listed at the official site (Ulysses) doesn´t answer to emails, nor does any of the local…
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Participants: Jaillir, Jürgen Mayer.

8/27/2002 Valamir: Out of the Box
Ken Hite had some great things to say about RoS in this weeks column http://www.gamersrealm.com/store1/outofthebox.php
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Participants: Valamir, Mike Holmes.

8/28/2002 contracycle: Polearms
Well, I went to visit Warwick castle last weekend, and quite entertaining it was too. There was a brief bit of jousting and so forth, and more interestingly, a short…
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Participants: contracycle, ShaneNINE, Jasper, Mike Holmes, GhostShip Blue, Lyrax, Wolfen, Durgil, Mokkurkalfe, Valamir.

8/28/2002 Ed: Opponents as terrain
I was reading the rules about treating multiple opponents as terrain, and it wasn't quite gelling for me. Can somebody give a good example run-through? I guess my main question…
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Participants: Ed, Lyrax, Valamir, Wolfen.

8/30/2002 Balbinus: TROS in the real world
Cool as I understand the setting is, I have a great love of real-world settings. Has anyone tried adapting TROS to historical Europe? How hard would it be?
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Participants: Balbinus, Mike Holmes, Ace, Lyrax, Sneaky Git, Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

8/30/2002 Balbinus: Guns query
Does TROS have rules for guns of the (equivalent) period? If not, how difficult would that be to introduce?
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Participants: Balbinus, Mike Holmes, Lyrax, Shadeling, Ben.

8/31/2002 Ben: the ART of TRoS
Howdy Strangers, GII: So what kind of art is everyone hoping to see in the upcoming supplements. Styles? Pencils, B/W Inks, Digital, ...(Jake really hopes you say B/W Inks) Subjects?…
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Participants: Ben, Mokkurkalfe, Nick Pagnucco, Jürgen Mayer, Sneaky Git, Brian Leybourne, Spartan, Wolfen.

9/1/2002 Jake Norwood: I'm Baaa-aack!
Uh, hey, I'm back. There are a lot of questions, probably. I think I've read up on everything, but I'm not sure. Be patient as I move stuff around, and…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Sneaky Git.

9/1/2002 Jaif: Questions: stealth & thrown dagger, from a recent sessio
I had a couple situations that came up in my last session that are making me think. Since thinking is bad, I thought I'd ask for some help here to…
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Participants: Jaif, Ace, Mokkurkalfe, Thirsty Viking, Lyrax.

9/1/2002 Shadeling: Simultaneous Attackers-none successful
What happens if Simultaneous Reds are dropped, and both attackers fail in their rolls-do you drop Initiative again?
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Participants: Shadeling, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen.

9/2/2002 Shdwjack: Kopesh
I'm playing a guy from Ahr, and I was wondering what the stats for the Kopesh would be. Thanks.
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Participants: Shdwjack, Nick Pagnucco, Lyrax, Mike Holmes.

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